Ranked doesn’t mean safe this Saturday. Utah, Texas, Texas Tech and Wake Forest all go on the road to teams that are a combined 20-1 at home this season.

Here is the slate, with AP rankings, kickoff times in Central and the current ESPN line:

• No. 11 Wake Forest (8-1) at No. 25 SMU (7-2), 11 a.m., ESPN. SMU is 6-0 at home. Wake is a 1.5-point favorite, which is the bookmakers’ way of saying “no idea.”
• No. 2 Utah (9-0) at No. 22 Arizona (7-2), 6:30 p.m., FOX. Arizona is 5-0 at home. Utah is one of the last two unbeatens in the country and is only a 2.5-point favorite.
• No. 8 Texas (7-2) at No. 24 LSU (6-3), 6:30 p.m., ABC. LSU is 5-1 at home and is a 4-point favorite over the higher-ranked team. Night game in Baton Rouge. Of course it is.
• No. 10 Texas Tech (8-1) at Oklahoma State (6-3), 8:30 p.m., ESPN. Unranked Oklahoma State is 4-0 at home and favored by 3.5. That one tells you everything.

Two of the four ranked road teams are underdogs, and the other two are favored by less than a field goal. When Vegas looks at a top-10 team on the road and shrugs, pay attention.

My gut says at least one of these four goes down, maybe two. Home teams that are 20-1 didn’t get there by accident.

And the Vols have a road trip of their own. Texas A&M is 4-1 at Kyle Field and 0-4 everywhere else. Here’s why that matters Saturday.

One note: these are this week’s AP numbers. The CFP committee releases its new rankings tonight at 8 Central, so some of them are about to move.

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Jeremy Durham is a sports columnist for TriStar Daily and the founder of Five and a Fade.